Doves, Bond, and GERMENcrew Go Hard in the Paint

Ah yes, what's on the agenda today in our list of arresting art and arrestable offenses? Some creativity here, criminality there. Maybe it's the chemtrails, maybe we were all brainwashed with the need to be famous from a young age, maybe it's talent forcing its way through damage and injustice. Regardless of why, it's there, and we hope to bring you the best and most exciting of what street art and graff that there is to show, week to week. Peruse and admire or seethe, it's a free world. Sort of.

Doves

Doves is one of those guys who's been flipping that classic New York wlidstyle for years, in a way so fye that it never gets old. Most recently, we have this burner on a walls of concrete cubes, adding another cool element to his work. It's only one piece of many in what's being called the Bushwick Yard, and FreshPaintNYC fell threw to catch the action like you might expect.

GERMENcrew

Why paint a building when you can paint an entire city? The Mexican government asked GERMENcrew to come through and splash color over an entire mountainside section of the Palmitas district of Pachuca. It covers 20,000 square meters, includes over 200 buildings, affects 1,800 people, and took five months to complete. They even claim that violence among youth there has been totally eradicated, although I can't find a reliable source for that. Before the vibrant colors were added, they primed the entire area with white paint, which is a sight in itself. They even filmed a video during this period with a white-painted shaman type dancing while waving colorful smoke all around himself.

Brendan The Blob Monroe

Wavey. Can't say we've seen many box trucks like this. Very simple line work, but nice depth and energy. The Blob is coming!

Bond

The work of Bond is always eye catching and full of wonder, but looking at it usually gives me a little bit of anxiety. The amount of precise detailed work, with all those straight lines and tiny accents, feels more like punishment than pleasure to me, and it sort of rubs off on the impression I get viewing the end result. But I just can't front on this. All those layers and light work and vibrant colors make it hard to peel my eyes away. Bond, Flames Bond.

Pout76

Don't Pout because this isn't traditional graf. It's true, his letters are super weird, but his style is a lot of fun. All those bright colors put together in new ways, the vibrating energy, the multitude of techniques all come together for a nothing but good time. The best part of this one is how he lets the concrete shine through in various parts of the fill like it was just another color, which you might not notice if you didn't look closely.

Amuse.126

Okay, we've officially featured Amuse more than any other writer in these pages. But just look at this: He's stepped into the fifth dimension. It didn't even take some art gallery to boost his motivation to take things to this new level. I wish this was my room.

Spek

Writers live far longer than the date they pass as their name is carried on by family for years and years. Spek's reign continues this week, by way of Enoe, who sears his name into this deserving wall with a color scheme borrowed from one of Parker Lewis's shirts.

ANIMAL New York

Looks like the wild run of the Animal New York blog is finally coming to a close. We wish you all the best in your next projects. Always enjoyed browsing the site. Good luck homies.

Sharp (1984)

It's always fun finding old-school footage, and What You Write recently came across a cool Videowave TV interview from 1984 with graf writer Sharp. The one-on-one interview is a little awkward, but things pick up when they cut to footage of him bombing while he narrates the scenes, saying things like this: "Seems like every time I'm getting chased, every step I take, I''m like, aw I can't take this anymore. This is the last time. I'm gonna quit. Like yesterday, I was running out the tunnel, boy, and I ran right into a signal light. Fell down onto the tracks. And I busted my ass. Then I ran and I tried to jump on the train, but I couldn't. And every step I was taking, I was like, damn, I gotta quit. I gotta quit. But like when I was on the train, home free, I was just like, nah. You know you can't quit."

Faith47

This abandoned hotel in Mexico has absorbed years of character as the world swept by, leaving its mark in layers. Faith47's mural works within the natural textures it's accumulated, bending them into the depiction of a dead bird. It may seem a little morbid, but is actually a representation of all the dead birds inside the building, and a comment on how plastic is the cause of most of their deaths. Some of Faith's recent work in Jersey City became a causality in the war between street art and graffiti. Mana Contemporary is opening an "urban arts" museum and asked her to paint a mural on their new roof. Unfortunately, some "urban art" was already there, and the writers came back to do throwies over her painting. The wall is a fame spot, viewed by thousands daily as drivers get trapped in bottleneck traffic for the Holland Tunnel entrance.